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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 4h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

As someone who remembers what happened in 2003 when the former law school PR board moved off the Princeton Review website (and even what happened when the PR staff wasn't around to delete posts), lemme just say that it is not a fucking surprise to me that young republicans talk like that.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 18h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not trying to be a dick.

But they picked two fat republicans for a bunch of jokes when the young republicans said the worst shit imaginable.

My fat ass is out there fighting for what's right.

Stop equating fat with bad or less. Stop telling ME I'm one annoyance away from being your target.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

I have identified a fatal data flaw in the survey analysis. Takedown will be incoming but suffice to say, nobody should use Kaufmann’s data for any purpose. It has a critical methodological flaw that is quite embarrassing for him.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 11h

Early in my transition an older punk cis guy gruffly told me that he may not get every term right but he would fuck up any bigot who threatened me.

He remains a dear friend. Most of the liberals who made a point of emphasizing how valid I was went terf the moment I contradicted them on anything.

🏳️‍⚧️Fae "Futch Auntie" Weichsel 🦾 @faeweichsel.bsky.social · 13h

I’ll take someone who doesn’t know all the right terms but will go THROUGH someone before they let someone hurt me.

Vs someone who knows all the right terms and thinks I’m valid. But really at the end of the day

“Trans women are men in dresses when we get down to it. “

Hands down. Every time.

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 13h

A particular delusion of the liberal gentry, sadly influential even at this late hour, is that table manners somehow preclude someone from truly being a fascist, or increase the likelihood of their redemption. They do not.

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 1d

"They thought Trek was progressive"?

And they're calling *other* people "fake fans"??

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

I am tired.
I look tired.
Bone-deep exhaustion.

Regrets are worthless.
Change your hearts. Commit to being better and learning or gtfo.

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 1d

Four Corners Landscaping, Southwest Asia Edition

Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 1d

I've seen how Republicans age. These fuckos are probably in their early to mid-30s.

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 1d

Today's candidate for the nuclear block.

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Be gone, demon

Stupid laugh cry emoji only assholes use

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Ebil Pwushie Mini Celeste 🐇 🪡 🔜 MFF @miniceleste.bnuy.gay · 1d

👀 AAAAAAAA

10 away!

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ぬーどる @longandsoft.bsky.social · 2d

abandoned pa turnpike

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 1d

Vanessa Carlton's "Paint it Black"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B992...

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 1d

@klingonpopwarrior.com Question for you!

If one wanted to give a ship a Klingon name representing the heat or the joy of battle, what sort of name(s) might you recommend?

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 2d

Intimidatingly beautiful. (Yes, that's a thing.)

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

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Phoenix Blue @phoenixblue.net · 3d

What a lovely outfit and makeup! 😍

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 3d

hi yes $403 to go until NONFICTION!? I love an essay, and essays from queer writers on a breadth of topics no less!!

however

I'm here to beg 8 of you to let me have a good time—because if we get 300 backers @mruthrobinson.bsky.social will play alien: isolation while Ash and I watch and laugh 😂💜

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 3d

We’re $436 away from unlocking nonfiction! That means we’ll open to submissions of everything from moving personal essays to excavations of queer SFF history to incisive literary criticism.

PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...